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BALA KANDA AND AYODHYA KANDA
This treatise is a showcase of the age old Ramayana in a whole new light. It is the work of love by a connoisseur of one of the most important epics of the Indian subcontinent and Sanskrit Literature. Lakkaraju Ananta Rama Rao and his unique interpretation draw parallels between the oriental and occidental philosophies, western and Indian literature, religion and realism... to find a deeper understanding in the life of Rama.
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ARANYA KANDA, KISHKINDHA KANDA
“Ramayana has got the essentials of all the Vedas. Bhagawan Maha Vishnu is Veda personified, as all the Vedas emanate from Him. Rama is the human avatara of Mana Vishnu. Hence, Ramayana, the story of Rama, is Veda itself. It is Veda in the form of a Mahakavya. Its Hero is not Rama, the son of Kausalya and Dasharatha, but the Supreme Upanishadic Rama, In fact, Ramayana is more a philosophic and Vedic story than a human story.”
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YUDDHA KANDA, UTTARA KANDA
A unique feature of this commentary by Lakkaraju Ananta Rama Rao, is the innovative comparison of the Ramayana to western literature. He acknowledges the merits of great works like Homer's Iliad, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by Milton, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. And at the same time, he establishes the superiority of the Ramayana for its spiritual and philosophical content, as well as its values and the path of righteousness that it advocates to humanity.
